3254

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 99

The said rates will be payable in one sum on the 15th day of December, 1920, to the Collector of Rates for the Rangitaiki Land Drainage District, at the Chief Drainage Engineer's Office, 43 High Street, Auckland, at which office the rate-book is open for inspection.

A copy of the rate-book may be inspected by ratepayers at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which that office is open for the transaction of public business.

SCHEDULE.

Class A.—On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act: Fivepence and seventy-nine one-hundredths of a penny (5d. and 79/100d.) in the pound.

Class B.—On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class B by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act: Threepence and thirty-one one-hundredths of a penny (3d. and 31/100d.) in the pound.

Class C.—On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class C by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act: Eighty-three one-hundredths of a penny (83/100d.) in the pound.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Bakers' Shops in the Borough of Palmerston, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the bakers' shops in the Borough of Palmerston, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m., and on Saturdays at 11 p.m.:

And whereas the Palmerston Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the bakers' shops within the Borough of Palmerston:

Now, therefore, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that on and after the 9th day of December, 1920, all the bakers' shops in the Borough of Palmerston shall be closed accordingly.

The notice gazetted on the 28th October, 1920, fixing the closing-hours of all the shops in the Borough of Palmerston is hereby superseded in so far as it relates to the shops affected by this notice as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of November, 1920.

W. H. HERRIES, Minister of Labour.

NOTE.—The above notice is published in substitution for that published on page 3197 of the New Zealand Gazette of the 2nd December, 1920.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1908.—Amended Notice specifying Combined District of Dunedin.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 10 (6) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Labour, do hereby specify that the combined district of Dunedin comprises the City of Dunedin and the Boroughs of St. Kilda, West Harbour, Port Chalmers, and Green Island.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of December, 1920.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Labour.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1908.—Notice specifying Combined Districts.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 10 (6) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Labour, do hereby specify the following combined districts and the respective boroughs and town districts comprised therein as follows, that is to say:—

The combined district of Otahuhu and Papatoetoe, comprising the Borough of Otahuhu and the Town District of Papatoetoe.

The combined district of Taumarunui and Manunui, comprising the Borough of Taumarunui and the Town District of Manunui.

The combined district of Nelson and Tahunanui, comprising the City of Nelson and the Town District of Tahunanui.

The combined district of Greymouth and Cobden, comprising the Borough of Greymouth and the Town District of Cobden.

The combined district of Cambridge and Leamington, comprising the Borough of Cambridge and the Town District of Leamington.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of December, 1920.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Labour.

Christmas and New Year Holidays.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1920.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that on Saturday, 25th December, Monday, 27th December, Tuesday, 28th December, 1920; and Saturday, 1st January, and Monday, 3rd January, 1921; the Government Offices throughout New Zealand will be closed.

W. R. MORRIS,
Public Service Commissioner.

Commissioner of Supreme Court appointed.

FREDERICK WILLIAM MOLE, Esquire, of Brisbane, in the State of Queensland, Public Curator, and a Conveyancer of the Supreme Court of Queensland, has been appointed by the Honourable the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in that State, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of November, 1920.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Registrar of Supreme Court.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 6th December, 1920.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the sum of 2s. 6d., forwarded to His Excellency the Governor-General by a person unknown, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

J. J. ESSON,
Acting Secretary to the Treasury.

Officiating Ministers for 1920.—Notice No. 37.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1920.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Donald Raeburn McDonald.
David McCosh, M.A.
W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, ROBERT EDWARD HAYES, Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that The Optimists’ Club (New Zealand) (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations and has no assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of November, 1920.

R. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, ROBERT EDWARD HAYES, Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that The New Zealand Viticultural Association (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations and has no assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of November, 1920.

R. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.